Objectives and Goals for URITK at Several Levels


Knowledge and Skills
Surface Objectives
  • Sharing
  • Critical Stance
  • "Stealing" resources
  • Sharing resources
  • Access to resources at home
  • Troubleshooting
  • Building knowledge from information
Modeling Pedagogy
Below Surface Objectives
  • Modeling technology as tool for teaching and learning
  • Sharing / Exploring new tech tools
  • Modeling collaborative knowledge building
Communicating Educational Values
Stealth Objectives
  • Recognize that great teachers develop with years of experience.
  • This transformation more likely to happen in context of supportive community of peers.
  • Wiki acts as a shared community tool, which might inspire continued participation (into teaching).

Side notes:

  • Excellent teachers always have stealth objectives for their instruction.
  • Stealth objectives should follow from a teacher's philosophy of education, and should answer the question:

What change do I want to be remembered for by my students?